Rosetta Stone

For adults, the early part of learning a new language is all drudgery and repetition. But a new company called Memrise looks like the next stage of evolution in language e-learning. And it might just roll right over premium products like Rosetta Stone.

The British Museum is receiving a $38 million gift from John Sainsbury, the former chairman of the British supermarket chain. The donation is one of the biggest gifts to the arts in recent decades and will help the British Museum fund an extension and preserve its collection of ancient...

All of a sudden, there's a queue for IPOs. While few observers were paying attention, and the IPO market was assumed to be all but dead, the line was forming and growing. The IPO pipeline increased to 34 registrants seeking to raise $10.9 billion as of Sept. 30, up from 28 registrants seeking to...

There's no denying the online craze for social media and communications. First there was MySpace, then Facebook, then Twitter among the many social-networking platforms. Recently, language software learning company Rosetta Stone (RST) quietly rolled out TOTALe (pronounced toe-tally) -- its latest...

It's been called one of the hottest IPOs of the year and revolves around language: 31 of them to be exact. From English to Spanish to Irish Gaelic to Arabic, language learning software company Rosetta Stone (RST) has you covered. And in a global economy, the company may just have a hit on its...

The IPO market isn't quite on fire. It is, though, heating up. Shares of DigitalGlobe (DGI), which provides satellite photography to Google (GOOG) and Microsoft (MSFT), are trading higher today after raising $279.3 million in an initial public offering yesterday. That investors are willing to put...

Companies looking for money in our arid economy might look to the world's growing need for multilingualism. According to the Wall Street Journal, both Rosetta Stone (RST), the language training company, and Walt Disney Co. (DIS) are showing that people are still willing to fork over their dinero to...